Current Positions:

• Research Fellow in the Church Lab at Harvard Medical School
• iGEM Software Committee

Education:

• PhD, Bioinformatics, Boston University, 2016
• MS, Bioinformatics, Boston University, 2012
• BS, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 2010

Research Fields:

• Synthetic Biology
• Computational Biology

Research Interests:

• Predictive design, verification, and automated debugging of synthetic genetic regulatory networks
• Development of algorithm-driven Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools for synthetic biology

Publications:

• E. Appleton, J. Tao, F.C. Wheatley, D. Desai, P. Shah, T. Lozanoski, J. Awtry, S. Jin, T. Haddock, and D. Densmore “Owl: Electronic datasheet generator”. ACS Synthetic Biology, 3 12 966-968, 2014.
• J. McNamara, S. Lightfoot, K. Drinkwater, E. Appleton, and K. Oye “Designing safety poli- cies to meet evolving needs: iGEM as a testbed for proactive and adaptive risk management”. ACS Synthetic Biology, 3 12 983-985, 2014.
• K.A. Oye, K. Esvelt, E. Appleton, F. Catteruccia, G. Church, T. Kuiken, S. Bar-Yam Light- foot, J. McNamara, A. Smidler, and J.P. Collins. “Regulating gene drives”. Science, 345, 6197 626-628, 2014.
• E. Appleton, J. Tao, T. Haddock, and D. Densmore "Interactive assembly algorithms for molecular cloning". Nature Methods, 2014, 11 (6) : 657-62.
• J. Beal, R. Weiss, D. Densmore, A. Adler, E. Appleton, J. Babb, S. Bhatia, N. Davidsohn, T. Haddock, J. Loyall, R. Schantz, V. Vasilev, and F. Yaman. "An end-to-end workflow for engineering of biological networks from high-level specifications". ACS Synthetic Biology, 2012, 1 (8), pp 317–331
• B. Yordanov, E. Appleton, R. Ganguly, E. Aydin Gol, S. Banerjee-Carr, S. Bhatia, T. Haddock, C. Belta and D. Densmore "Experimentally driven verification of synthetic biological circuits" Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe. 2012